How to Effectively Manage a Data Breach

Data breaches are a security nightmare that most CISOs will face at some point in their careers. While most data breaches are not recoverable, security teams can still reduce the impact and limit the damage. Avya Chaudhary, writing for TechRepublic Premium, explains what a data breach actually is, how it can affect your organization, and …

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Boost Your Security Posture With Objective-Based Penetration Testing

Boost Your Security Posture With Objective-Based Penetration Testing

To maximise value from your security investments, your measures must be effective How can you be confident your measures are fit for purpose – and prove it to stakeholders like customers, partners and regulators? Penetration testing (also known as ‘pen testing’ or ‘ethical hacking’) offers a vital tool for identifying gaps and opportunities to strengthen your security programme. Our head of security testing, James Pickard, explains further. In this interview Is your security programme effective? What are key challenges when implementing a security programme? Resources and costs are often top of the list. Many organisations have a tight budget for
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Dennis Kirk – 1,356,026 breached accounts

In October 2024, almost 20GB of data containing 1.3M unique email addresses from motorcycle supplies store Dennis Kirk was circulated. Dating back to September 2021, the data also contained purchases from the online store along with customer names, phone numbers and postcodes. Dennis Kirk did not respond to multiple attempts to make contact about the breach. The data was provided to HIBP by a source who requested it be attributed to “IntelBroker , Valhalla & EnergyWeaponUser”.

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Altenen – 1,267,701 breached accounts

In June 2022, the malicious “carding” (referring to credit card fraud) website Altenen suffered a data breach that was later redistributed as part of a larger corpus of data. The data included 1.3M unique email addresses, usernames, bcrypt password hashes and cryptocurrency wallet addresses.

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